In Life Spans, Nation Is on the Bottom Rung
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From Times Wire Reports
Life in Zimbabwe is shorter than anywhere else in the world, with neither men nor women expected to live to 40, World Health Organization statistics show.
The WHO’s World Health Report for 2006 says the average life expectancy in the AIDS- and poverty-stricken country is 36 years, less than half the 82 years for Japan, which tops the list along with San Marino and Monaco.
The study used the latest data from 2004. Last year’s report, based on 2003, put Zimbabwe’s average life expectancy one year higher, at 37.
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